Ni un manual, ni un libro de texto, ni un simple comentario de la obra de "grandes nombres": este libro es a la vez más ambicioso y más aplicable al trabajo real y concreto de los investigadores en ciencias sociales del siglo XXI. La teoría social, ahora propone y explora, en palabras de sus AUTHORes, una nueva lista de tradiciones teóricas relevantes para entender y participar en la compleja trama de temas y enfoques que representa en la actualidad la teoría social. Académicos prestigioso...

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes.We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In The Perfect Fit, Claudio E. Benzecry looks at the craft that goes into designing shoes for women in the US market, revealing that this creative process takes place on a global scale. Based on unprecedented...

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world’s stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But while a desire to hobnob with the upper crust might motivate the occasional operagoer, for hardcore fans the real answer, according to The Opera Fanatic, is passion—they do it for love.Opera lovers are an intense lot, Claudio ...

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In Social Theory Now, Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed set a new course for sociologists, bringing together contributions from the most distinctive?sociolog...

No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva. Este hecho incontrastable da lugar, sin embargo, a lecturas antagónicas. ¿Artífices de la debacle o salvadores de la patria? ¿Meros brazos ejecutores de los intereses de las clases dominantes o detentores privilegiados de las verdades que gobiernan nuestro tiempo? Lejos de estas dicotomías simplificadoras gracias a una admirable riqueza de matices, este libro reconstruye cómo...